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Can Amazon AWS partner perks keep the peace with startups and small vendors? | #reInvent
It is difficult to find a tech founder or CEO who is not envious of Amazon’s charge through the cloud market. Some would even say Amazon.com Inc. as approaching monopoly status. Will the larger tech vendor community make a concerted effort to slow Amazon’s takeover? Or will Amazon’s partnering perks keep the peace with smaller companies? Dorothy Copeland, ...
Healthy ‘coopetition’: This AWS partner says that Amazon’s bark is worse than its bite | #reInvent
To partner with Amazon Web Services or not to partner with Amazon Web Services? Tension is building in the tech community over the dicey position of startups and smaller companies that decide to integrate with AWS. While companies want exposure to Amazon’s massive customer base, they also worry that their collaboration will create a monster ...
Hard to choose a cloud for your apps? How about test driving them on your desktop? | #reInvent
Not only is the migration to cloud difficult work for companies, but they are constantly being told they must make the trek not once but multiple times. Many analysts say that companies will have to operate in a multi-cloud environment to stay competitive in the Digital Age. With so much at stake, how do they ...
Will The Machine rescue HPE from irrelevance and differentiate it in the market? | #HPEDiscover
At this year’s HPE Discover EU conference in London, there was a strange dichotomy in the messaging from the company’s own representatives. When asked if Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is primarily a products or service company, the people in products said it is basically a products company; those in the service arm said it is ...
If Amazon plays its channel cards right, it could become ‘the Intel of the cloud’ | #reInvent
Amid swirling speculation of an open-source insurgence against Amazon’s growing takeover of the cloud market, its partnering appeal persists. This year’s AWS re:Invent conference features 150 partners announcing products that blend with Amazon in some way. And the sentiment from these partners is that they know Amazon could just as soon eat them as feed ...
Advice on securing modern cloud apps from a company born and bred in AWS | #reInvent
Cloud-native applications and even entire cloud-native companies are popping up all over these days — and why not? The convenience and low overhead of starting from scratch in the cloud has undeniable appeal. There is just one issue that companies may overlook in their haste to move apps to cloud: security. Ramin Sayar, president and ...
A movable feast: Mobilizing clunky data to feed advanced applications | #reInvent
Big data keeps getting bigger, yet swift, reliable, advanced applications that make use of it are not as abundant as enterprises would like. Part of the problem is how to break large datasets out of their silos for trucking around. (Speaking of which, Amazon actually rolled out a 45-foot truck into the keynote hall at ...
Trouble in paradise: Is the open-source community planning a revolt against Amazon? | #reInvent
Things just keep looking up for Amazon. Attendance at this year’s AWS re:Invent conference broke the record; enterprise giants like McDonald’s are singing its praises on the keynote stage; and it has announced roughly 1,000 upcoming features and updates. And yet some foresee adversity ahead from both users and ecosystem players. Stu Miniman (@stu), co-host of theCUBE ...
Can an application really live in seven places? Defining ‘the new hybrid cloud’ | #reInvent
“Hybrid cloud,” “hybrid infrastructure” and “hybrid IT” are all terms bandied around Silicon Valley lately. Industry experts say that businesses will need a mix of on-prem, public cloud and private cloud to enter the Digital Age. But, practically speaking, what does this really mean? Can an application really live in several different places? John Furrier ...
If digital transformation is the future, why are companies investing so little in it? | #HPEDiscover
“Digital transformation” is a buzz term lately in the worlds of tech and businesses that utilize tech in their models. Analysts and technologists are promising companies that digitizing has the power to transform their operations and increase profits. So why are businesses otherwise on-board with the change still spending so little of their budgets on ...